- Stuart Cunningham
Stuart Cunningham (born
1953 ) is Professor of Media and Communications,Queensland University of Technology , and Director of theAustralian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. He is President of the Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS).With degrees from the
University of Queensland , andMcGill University in Canada, Cunningham was awarded his Doctorate fromGriffith University in Brisbane in 1988. He is well known for his contributions to media, communications andcultural studies and to their relevance to industry practice and government policy. A key figure in cultural policy studies andcreative industries , he has written a number of influential books, including "The Media and Communications in Australia" (co-edited withGraeme Turner ) which has gone into four editions and is the standard text in the field in Australia.He is an appointed member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts 2005-7, Adjunct Professor of the
Australian National University 2006-8 and Node Convenor, Cultural Technologies, for the ARC Cultural Research Network (CRN).He has co-authored several major reports for bodies such as UNCTAD, the federal departments of education and communications, the
Australian Broadcasting Authority , Queensland state government and Brisbane City Council. He was a board member of theAustralian Film Commission 1992-98, and was recently concluded a period as foundation chair of QPIX, Queensland's Screen Development Centre for eight years, 1997-2005. He was Treasurer and Council and Executive member of theAustralian Academy of the Humanities from 2003-6, having been elected to that Academy as one its inaugural fellows in cultural and communication studies in 1997. He was an elected board member of the Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) in 2005-6.Cunningham was awarded a
Centenary Medal in 2003 in recognition of his contribution to the humanities in Australia.He was selected as one of a thousand notable Australians for the Australia 2020 summit in Canberra in April 2008.
elect Bibliography
*"What Price a Creative Economy"? Platform Paper series, Currency House, July 2006
*"The Media and Communications in Australia" (edited withGraeme Turner ), Allen & Unwin, 2006
*"The Australian TV Book" (edited withGraeme Turner ), Allen & Unwin, 2000
*"Floating lives: The media and Asian diasporas" (edited with John Sinclair), University of Queensland Press, 2000
*"The Media in Australia: Industries, Texts, Audiences", 2nd ed (edited withGraeme Turner ), Allen & Unwin, 1997
*"New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision" (edited with John Sinclair and Liz Jacka), Oxford University Press, 1996
*"Australian Television and International Mediascapes" (with Liz Jacka), Cambridge University Press, 1996
*"Contemporary Australian Television" (with Toby Miller), University of New South Wales Press, 1994External links
* [http://www.chass.org.au/ Website of the Council for Humanities and Social Sciences]
* [http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/about_us/staff-profile/staffDetail.jsp?id=00001704 Stuart Cunningham's staff website]
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